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1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
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Introduction: the collection awakes -- The birth, death, and resurrection of the slasher film. (in)stability of point of view in when a stranger calls and eyes of a stranger / David Roche -- Undermining the moneygrubbers, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Friday the 13th part v / Wickham Clayton -- I framed Freddy: functional aesthetics in the a Nightmare on Elm Street series / Karra Shimabukuro -- Candyman and Saw: re-imagining the slasher film through urban gothic / Stacey Abbott -- Older, darker, and self-aware. Franchise legacy and neo-slasher conventions in Halloween h20 / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Roses are red, violence is too: exploring stylistic excess in Valentine / Mark Richard Adams -- Puzzles, contraptions, and the highly elaborate moment: the inevitability of death in the grand slasher narratives of the Final destination and Saw series of films / Ian Conrich -- The killer who never was: complex storytelling, the Saw series, and the shifting moral alignment of puzzle film horror / Matthew Freeman -- Resurrecting Carrie / Gary Bettinson -- Form vs. theory. Parody, pastiche and intertextuality in Scream: formal and theoretical approaches to the postmodern slasher / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- Crises of identification in the supernatural slasher: the resurrection of the supernatural slasher villain / Jessica Balanzategui -- Queer erotic aesthetics in Marcus Nispel's The Texas chainsaw massacre / Darren Elliott-Smith -- Beyond surveillance: questions of the real in the neo-postmodern horror film / Dana Och -- The slasher, the final girl, and the anti-denouement / Janet Staiger. |
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| ISBN |
9781137496478 (e-book) |
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